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Coventry City forward Amadou Bakayoko has revealed how Mark Robins set the tone ahead of the Sky Blues' currently suspended promotion charge.

City sit first in the League One table and were rushing for a title-winning promotion to the second tier before the campaign was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It was a campaign set up to be the perfect, from the very moment Robins started planning.

"At the end of last season I had a meeting with the manager who said he 'wants me to kick on, wants everybody to kick on' and he wasn't messing about," said Bakayoko during an interview with Reveal - a YouTube channel dedicated to covering African footballers and footballers with African heritage.

"You could tell by his face and his energy. You know straight away that we were coming in for a big season."

Football finance expert Kieran Maguire believes clubs in the EFL face a bleak future as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Coventry City's season and all professional football in England has been suspended since March 13, with no date set for a return yet.

As a result, clubs in the EFL are feeling the pinch, with many from the Championship down either furloughing staff or asking their players to take a put cut. At City, all of the squad and some non-playing staff were placed on furlough leave, while manager Mark Robins, assistant Adi Viveash, and the players have now agreed a 25 per cent wage deferral.

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